March 18 2010 12:55 AM

Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy - March 2010

Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain, non-technical language what the updates are, what they

March 17 2010 10:25 PM

PowerShell Scripts for System Center (Master Collection)

I've started gathering all the System Center-related PowerShell scripts I use from System Center Central (and a few from elsewhere) so I could have a convenient reference point. Here's the first round, but there's a lot more to be added. Here are the cat

March 16 2010 12:56 AM

How to use the SCCM Reporting Dashboard (Beta) for OpsMgr 2007 data

Here's a neat idea from Tim McFadden, author of the Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler for OpsMgr. Says Tim: "You might have noticed that the SCCM Reporting Dashboard (Beta) was released about a month ago. But what most of you don’t know is that you can u

March 14 2010 12:00 PM

Collection Query for Systems with a particular application installed (or not installed)

When creating a dynamic collection in ConfigMgr 2007 for applications with a particular application installed, you can simply replace the application name with the application of your choice by look at Add/Remove Programs. Take the name from there and pu

March 14 2010 11:54 AM

ConfigMgr Collection Query for Windows 7 Systems

We had a thread on SCC about a Windows 7 collection query, and I believe this is the one we ended up with based on that chat. Here is the collection query to create a dynamic collection of Windows 7 systems in ConfigMgr 2007. select SMS_R_SYSTEM.Resource

March 14 2010 11:51 AM

ConfigMgr Collection Query for Windows 2008 Server Systems

Here's the collection query for Windows 2008 Server Systems select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.SMSAssignedSites, SMS_R_System.IPAddresses, SMS_R_System.IPSubnets, SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion, SMS_R_System.ResourceDomainOrWorkgroup, SMS

March 14 2010 11:28 AM

ConfigMgr Collection Query to find all Systems in an Active Directory OU

Here's another I've been playing with. ConfigMgr collection query with variables. Here's a collection query that SELECT * FROM SMS_R_System WHERE SystemOUName like "%PLAY% How to create custom collection with a query Here's a write up on how to add your

March 14 2010 11:08 AM

ConfigMgr Collection Query to find Systems with a Windows service installed (or not installed)

Here's a ConfigMgr 2007 collection query I've been using to find Systems without an OpsMgr 2007 agent installed. This query will show you systems with the System Center Management service (HealthService) installed select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYS

March 11 2010 5:51 PM

Client Deployment with System Center Part 1: Application Management

Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog From the desktop to the datacenter, between the physical and the virtual. Hi everyone, we start our first in the series on ‘Client Deployment with System Center’, and logically we begin with one of the biggest challen

March 10 2010 10:01 PM

Virtual System Center Part 2: Guidance on Dynamic VHDs (Thin Provisioning) for Production Workloads

The answer on dynamic virtual hard disks (or thin provisioning, in VMware terms) has become more nuanced over time. A few years ago, the answer was "not for production workloads". As with many situations, the answer today is "it depends". In part 1 of th